SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 101:
QUESTIONS AND SOME ANSWERS ABOUT PEOPLES’ STRUGGLES
By Lina Britto & Forrest Hylton

U.S LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY 101
QUESTIONS AND SOME ANSWERS
By Forrest Hylton

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON AUTHORS

Lina Britto is a Colombian journalist who has written for publications in Colombia, Bolivia, Spain, and the U.S. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American history at NYU working on the social and cultural history of marijuana production and the war on drugs in La Guajira, Colombia. She is the editor of El gas: Debate nacional (La Paz, 2003), and Altupata warminakan sartasitapa lup’iwipampi wali ch’amampi/La fuerza y el pensamiento de las mujeres alteñas en el levantamiento de Octubre de 2003 (La Paz, 2005), an oral history of the role that women played in El Alto, Bolivia, in the insurrection of 2003 which was carried out with Lucila Choque, Forrest Hylton, and the Colectivo de Mujeres Alteñas.

Forrest Hylton has taught political education in the Americas since 1996, and is currently writing a Ph.D. thesis at NYU on indigenous movements for self-government in late-nineteenth-century Bolivia. He has written widely for independent media, and is the author of Evil Hour in Colombia (New York, 2006). With Sinclair Thomson, he is co-author of Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics (New York, 2007); and with Thomson, Felix Patzi, and Sergio Serulnikov, he is co-author of ‘Ya es otro tiempo el presente’: Cuatro momentos de insurgencia indígena (La Paz, 2003). He is working on a book with Mike Davis about the history of political organizing, mobilization, and self-government in slums, and is in the initial stages of research for a book on the past, present, and future of democracy in Brooklyn, where he is a longtime friend of Se Hace Camino al Andar/Make the Road by Walking.